The Random House College Dictionary describes plagiarism as "the appropriation or imitation of the language, ideas, and thoughts of another author, and representation of them as one's own work."

In other words, you may not turn in a paper someone else has written and claim that you have written it. This is the most obvious form of plagiarism.

There are other cases of plagiarism and academic dishonesty as well :

1. Failing to give proper credit to sources.
2. Inventing sources.
3. Incorrectly documenting sources.
4. Submitting the same paper for more than 1 course.
5. "Faking" an assignment (such as making up a story for a profile essay rather than actually interviewing and observing).
6. Having someone else "fix" your work, such as editing or revising for you. Collaboration, which we will do in class, is much different than having someone to be the editor.